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Roger Lewis news Welcome to the Roger Lewis blog. Richard FitzGerald has stepped down as CEO of Racecourse Media Group – media/data rights company for UK & Ireland’s top racecourses – after nearly 12 years in the position. RMG chairman Roger Lewis praised his ‘exceptional’ leadership & helping generate +£800m in licence fees. The move sees Lewis assist RMG transition to a new Chair. Having been on the Board for more than 10 years, Lewis has helped RMG increase its licence fees and dividend payments to its racecourses from £45m to over £110m. On his extended position, the Chairman stated: “RMG is in great shape, and it is an honour to be asked to continue to Chair the company. We have a strong board and an outstanding team of executives, led by CEO, Martin Stevenson, who together have delivered in spectacular fashion for our racecourses and indeed for the sport of racing. Under Lewis’s leadership, the group paid £110m to its racecourse shareholders in 2021. Earned through raceco...
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Who is Roger Lewis?

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Who is Roger Lewis? Welcome back to our blog. Here were cover all aspects of business and sport from Wales. For this post we wanted to bring you an overview of who Roger Lewis is, and what he has achieved during his career. Roger Lewis has led a wide range of business enterprises across a variety of sectors, both as a non-executive director and non-executive chair, following a successful career as a chief executive. He has led major international record labels and companies, EMI and Decca, national radio stations, BBC Radio 1 and Classic FM, regional ITV, and national and international sports groups, the Welsh Rugby Union, and the Racecourse Media Group. Roger Lewis was also Chair of Cardiff International Airport, the Cardiff Capital Region, and Cardiff University Business School International Advisory Board. He was a director of the Barchester Group, the London based corporate finance boutique, and an advisor to Global Mutual, a European and US diversified investment company. Roger Le...
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Roger Lewis Classic FM

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 Roger Lewis Classic FM throwback Welcome back to the Roger Lewis blog. Here we will look back at Roger Lewis and his time at Classic FM. Back then he was with Decca records and left to join Classic FM as MD and programme controller, stated emphatically that he would not be applying for the job of Radio 2 controller. "I have no plans to do anything else other than stay here and enhance the station," he said. Yesterday, in the wake of the Capital Radio-GWR merger announcement, he quit. His departure - to become managing director of ITV Wales - offers rich possibilities for conspiracy theorists. The key question facing the two boards was how they would combine their managements, and for the hugely ambitious Lewis to move to what is, by any reckoning, a less significant job suggests he knew his days as a board member and perhaps as programme controller were numbered. Roger Lewis, the worldwide president of Decca Records, has been appointed as managing director and programme cont...
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